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🗓️ 27 April 2021
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Actor and comedian Eric André on how free jazz inspires his prank comedy.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment. |
0:14.7 | Welcome to The Treatment, the Home Edition. I'm Elvis Mitchell. You might think that bad trip might be the sequel to Rough Night. It is not. |
0:21.4 | It is the new film starring my guest, who I've been stalking for about five years now, |
0:26.1 | finally got him on the show. You may know him as the star of, what's this show called? Oh, yes, |
0:30.4 | the Eric Andre Show on Adult Swim. Eric, thanks so much for doing this. |
0:34.9 | Thank you for having me. Here's the thing I've always wanted to ask you. |
0:39.2 | Whereas you're writing and conceiving stuff, are you listening to music? |
0:42.5 | Yes, sometimes. |
0:43.8 | If I'm writing with the group, no. |
0:45.6 | If it's in the writer's room or the producer's meeting, no. |
0:49.1 | But if I'm writing by myself with my morning coffee at coffee shop, yes, I'm blasting music into my eardrums. |
0:56.6 | Yeah, because I've always wondered about that, because there's part of this that |
1:00.0 | whenever you're in character or doing one of these pieces on the show or in the movie, |
1:05.3 | there's that almost kind of fugue state that somebody gets into when there's a particular |
1:08.6 | piece of music that's firing off and getting the pheromones going in and and it changes kind of your mental state and part of me |
1:15.2 | you've always thought you want to do what the music is doing to you to other people yeah i went to |
1:20.5 | music school so i studied music so i come from the music backgrounds of my the earliest days of my |
1:26.5 | comedy were very music inspired. |
1:30.4 | And what way to talk about that? |
1:31.4 | Because that does fascinate me. |
1:33.4 | I went to a jazz school. |
1:34.9 | I went to Berkeley College of Music. |
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